Unlike studies on the vertical integration-performance relationship, we focus on disintegrating firms and investigate the performance consequences of vertical disintegration. We predict a positive disintegration effect on operating performance which is further conditioned on the initial degree...

Die Forschung zur wertorientierten Unternehmensführung sucht seit geraumer Zeit nach geeigneten Möglichkeiten, den Beitrag des Marketings zum Unternehmenserfolg messbar zu machen. In diesem Zusammenhang wurden zahlreiche Ansätze entwickelt, die sich unter den Begriff Marketing Performance...

In this report, we study the development of Finnish startup firms based on both survey and register data. The sample includes all firms that were founded in the first half of the year 2005, and those firms have been monitored for eight years. We find that entrepreneurs in growth-oriented...

China's economic structures, business dynamics and individual management decisions are not determined by the country's formal institutional arrangements alone. China's society, its politics and business are rather governed by powerful informal mechanisms that complement and sometimes overrule...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is like a chameleon, that changes its colour according to the context it is in. In the developed economy, it takes the form of sustainability and/ or philanthropy, whereas, in emerging economies, it speaks the language of religious, political and/or mandated...

Welche Rolle spielen Innovationen für den Bestand und den Erfolg von Unternehmen in einerWettbewerbswirtschaft? Das ist wohl die grundlegendste Frage, die sich die Managementwissenschaftin Bezug auf Strategien der Neuerung stellt. Vielfach begnügt sie sich mitder Antwort, daß die Bedeutung...

Strategic human resource management has been linked to competitive advantage and in turn to organizational performance. This linkage has been viewed from a universal, a contextual or a configurational perspective. Adopting the latter perspective, the authors of the present study investigate the...

Much progress has been made with regard to theory building and application in the field of Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) since Wright and McMahan's (1992) critical review. While researchers have increasingly investigated the impact of HR on economic success within the Resource Based...